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Work On Your Appearance..

How I am defining appearance: Appearance is how others perceive you. I am NOT talking about physique or how you dress. I AM talking about what you need to do at the minimum for others to perceive you in a favorable light.

I graduated with an
engineering degree, and when going through school, I have met some highly
intelligent people. Unfortunately, there are people who strictly focus on their
studies/skills, and let simple ideas get lost because they believe that just
being really good in a certain topic should be sufficient to carry them through
their careers.

“Why does my
appearance matter if the product that I make is amazing?”

Appearance matters because in the real world you will be working in a team environment. You need to be able to compromise with your teammates, and if they cannot deal with you because of how you lack basic self care, then that ultimately hurts the product. This unfortunately can lead to alienation, and a toxic environment.

How you carry
yourself is also crucial because you are representing a product/company; you
need to have others perceive you in a good light, and ultimately associate
themselves with you.

The next set of
suggestions are quite basic, but are important to social success. Although they
are “common sense”, some of us may have strayed a little from the
path, and need a light reminder to guide each other back on track.

When going out,
whether to go to work or to see friends, or heck even just for yourself, focus
on your hygiene! What does that mean?

Hygiene:

Shower daily (use soap!)

Brush your teeth (scrub your tongue!)

Apply deodorant (no sprays!)

Regularly wash your clothes

Think of it this
way: You don’t want to be the smelly, unkempt person. People definitely notice
these things, and it can make it difficult to work with that person. This can
be dodged just by following those basic steps!

The last piece of
advice is to have basic manners. Remember that no one is perfect all of the
time, and basic manners are subjected to different cultures, but the ones
suggested below are general and should be followed.

Basic Manners
include, but are not limited to:

Hold in body gasses

Keep your belongings around you (not in other people’s spaces)

Chew with your mouth closed

Don’t shovel food into your mouth

Here is a scenario to keep in the back of your mind: You are on an airplane, close and confined. You don’t want to sit next to the person that smells of body odor or bad coffee/onion breath. You don’t want to hear (or worse, smell) their burps or farts. You don’t want their stuff spilling into your area. You don’t want to hear them slapping their mouth while they eat.